Posts by bigmike&nan

Did the empanadas today - used Martha Stewart's pie crust recipe (tripled) and substituted 1/3 shortening for butter - really works out easy. Made a filling of sautéed diced potatoes, sweet onions in EVO, then added the cut up...

Most top shelf sangria (as the naming craze goes) has brandy in it - usually cheap stuff like Ernest & Julio. We make sangria in a 3 litre spiketed tea container. Lots of orange, lemon, lime slices, strawberries and watermelon...

Tomorrow I am making empenadas with the last of the leftover carnitas I made. Looking around on YouTube I saw this fella making the most amazing looking empenadas - now don't get me wrong, there are a lot of really great empenadas out...

Hey folks, hope you all are well. I wanted to post this recipe and dedicate it to two old friends (sisters) I knew way back as my way of saying HELLO and I miss them. So Alice and Ann, this is for you. Been a while. I know if you came...

I also love Omurice, which I'll post a video link to in a moment. This is from one of my favorite foreign films Tampopo A real foodie movie, in the movie a woman is trying to master every aspect of making good noodle soup, she's...

My apologies for not being around more, been busy with a lot of stuff. Still smoking. Did a pork butt that made the best pulled pork I've ever had. I used to swear by my made in the dutch oven in the oven pulled pork, no more. The...

Wwo that was most interesting. I looked it up on YouTube and watched a few of the video tutorials, I found this to be a very interesting process - I believe this person did it four times. Very cool...  We're having a Bento Box...

In our last two weeks of chef school we worked in the Careme Kitchen. One evening before a large buffet the chef distributed bowls of eggs to everyone. We had 15 minutes to present to him a scrambled egg, a fried egg and a poached egg....

Interesting to see Tyler Florence (one of my favorite Food TV Network chefs) doing commercial spots for Applebee's chain. He's taken some clever and tasty dishes and commercialized them for mass consumption. One shown on one of the...

Part search, part sleuth. Figured out that adding the sesame seed oil to the rinsed noodles while they were still warm really gave it that missing "thing".